Improving the usefulness of US mortality data: new methods for reclassification of underlying cause of death. [PDF]
Popul Health Metr, 2016 Mappings of ICD9 and ICD10 codes to condensed set of causes of death, including garbage codes.
Foreman KJ, Naghavi M, Ezzati M.
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Obscuring effect of coding developmental disability as the underlying cause of death on mortality trends for adults with developmental disability: a cross-sectional study using US Mortality Data from 2012 to 2016. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2019 Objective To determine whether coding a developmental disability as the underlying cause of death obscures mortality trends of adults with developmental disability.
Landes SD, Stevens JD, Turk MA.
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Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2022 Aim: The underlying cause of death represents the most important information on death certificates. Often, conditions that cannot represent a true underlying cause of death are listed as such. This phenomenon affects the quality of vital statistics and results of studies using cause-specific mortality as endpoints.
Gerhard Sulo +4 more
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Trends in psychotropic-drug-implicated mortality: Psychotropic drugs as a contributing but non-underlying cause of death. [PDF]
Drug Alcohol Depend, 2021 Vuolo M, Frizzell LC, Kelly BC.
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DeepDeath: Learning to predict the underlying cause of death with Big Data. [PDF]
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2017 AbstractMultiple cause-of-death data provides a valuable source of information that can be used to enhance health standards by predicting health related trajectories in societies with large populations. These data are often available in large quantities across U.S. states and require Big Data techniques to uncover complex hidden patterns. We design two
Hassanzadeh HR, Ying Sha, Wang MD.
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The pattern of underlying cause of death in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in England: a record linkage study [PDF]
, 2016 Background and Aims: Numerous studies have established that mortality risk in IBD patients is higher than the general population, but the causes of death have seldom been examined. We aimed to describe causes of death in IBD. Methods: A matched cohort
Gordon W. Moran +4 more
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Hypertension is the underlying cause of death assessed at the autopsy of individuals [PDF]
Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 2019 Objective: To analyze hypertension and its relationship with the causes of death identified by the autopsy. Method: Cross-sectional study analyzed 356 participants belonging to the Brazilian Aging Brain Study Group, over 50 years of age, autopsied at ...
Juliana Chaves Coelho +5 more
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Validity of underlying cause of death statistics in Hermosillo, Mexico [PDF]
Salud Pública de México, 2011 This paper assesses the quality of the underlying cause of death (COD) statistics in Hermosillo, Mexico in a random sample of 300 in-hospital adult deaths.A "gold standard" COD, determined by a systematic review of hospital medical charts, was compared to the COD reported by the vital registry system.Overall agreement between the reviewer and original ...
Mary H Freire de Carvalho +3 more
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Factors associated with the reporting of Down syndrome as the underlying cause of death on US death certificates. [PDF]
J Intellect Disabil Res, 2022 BACKGROUND Efforts aimed at preventing premature mortality for people with Down syndrome are hindered by the practice of reporting disability as the underlying cause of death.
Landes SD, Turk MA, Finan JM.
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Cerebral Palsy as an Underlying Cause of Death
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 Mark D. Peterson +2 more
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